Uncle Tom's Cabin

Uncle Toms Cabin is an American classic written by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Harriet Beecher Stowe was appalled by slavery and she took one of the few options open to nineteenth-century women who wanted to affect public opinion: she wrote a novel a huge enthralling narrative that claimed the heart soul and politics of pre-Civil War Americans. An overtly moralistic work of unabashed propaganda it is an attempt to make whites North and South see slaves as mothers fathers and children as human beings. Her basic question remains penetrating even today: Is man ever a creature to be trusted with wholly irresponsible power? Uncle Toms Cabin is an American classic that every American should read.